Uncles' dreams of science fiction games

Ivy 2021-11-30 08:01:28

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"Pixel Wars" The memory of video games in the past eighties and the crisis of the three male masters to the middle age of the present have created an American science fiction hero dream for the middle-aged uncle, but this is mixed The middle-aged emotions and nostalgic sci-fi works of the past can only please people of a certain age and are full of lengthy perceptions.


Science-fiction-style nostalgia is the biggest selling point of the movie. When childhood, those game images that could only stop at the screen became the alien accomplices who invaded the earth in reality, while the former game masters became the reality that can really turn the tide and save the world. Heroes, the movie undoubtedly creates a dream of a heroic game reality in terms of creative blueprints. On the sideline of character emotions, "Pixel Wars" uses three male protagonists who are almost middle-aged. They may watch It seems that glory is in the high position of the president, or is ineffective, and has become a decadent otaku, but after a pixel war about the destiny of the world, they also solved the problems they faced and moved towards a double harvest of career and love. This is also true. Commonly used sections of American hero Diaosi's counterattack.


The criticism of the movie is not that it lacks a blueprint, at least it is not mediocre in terms of creativity, but more that the movie does not have the same internality as "Invincible Destruction King" that can impress the whole age group. It is not familiar with Pacman. People, Donkey Kong, Little Bee and other game viewers, especially the generation surrounded by large games such as WII, XBOX360, ps4, etc., the three uncles who have neither beauty nor charm to save the world cannot infect them, but on the contrary. It seems naive and boring, and these classic images of the past are only tools for alien invasion, not self-spiritual. This is also very different from the novelty of the villain's normalization of "Invincible Destruction King". The failure of characterization is particularly prominent.


As a popcorn-style sci-fi movie, it will focus on too much pen and ink on the plight of the middle-aged uncles, from the beginning of childhood to their respective middle-aged crisis, if there is no subsequent alien pixel war, It seems that it can become a new movie on its own. Although these pavings can make the character creation more three-dimensional and vivid, as a science fiction movie, a series of trivial jokes that are not necessary make the expected pixel war too much. Short, on the contrary, the emotional elements of life are overflowing, which makes the overall look so long and unbearable.



The imbalance between sci-fi elements and trivial jokes makes this middle-aged uncle’s sci-fi game dream just an unsatisfactory middle-aged conjecture. The cheap humor is so mediocre even in popcorn movies.

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Extended Reading
  • Federico 2022-03-31 09:01:03

    After watching it, I quickly forgot about it

  • Kristin 2022-03-29 09:01:02

    Regarding the feelings of video games, watching this movie after being baptized by Disney, Spielberg, and Mamoru Hosoda really feels extremely vulgar. The film is purely under the guise of the game to express his own bad taste and that's all. Of course, if watching a movie is just to relax, this is still very suitable.

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